i think it says much about the two mainstream parties in U.S. politics when upon stating that you value the right to individual freedom, people assume that you don't identify with either of them...
Sure this is a very non-geek answer and perhaps inappropriate for slashdot but...Have you considered renting it out as a winter seasonal?
Don't know where in N.E. you are at, but in the area I am from--and all my family still lives--it is quite common to see people offering up their houses as winter rentals (at a fairly significant discount) to avoid the very sort of winterizing and worry you are asking about.
Basically everybody involved wins: the owner gets the house taken care of and lived in during the winter and the renter gets the place at a rate inconceivable of during the summer and spring.
just a thought...
wha--?...do you mean to imply that, short of buying a new system, nothing in a Mac can be upgraded?...because that would be news to the RAM, HD, and DVD burner in my G5; all of which have been upgraded, and all with off-the-shelf "PC" (read: not Mac specific) parts...my video card is also non-stock, but that was mac specific (only because i didn't feel like flashing a windows-based one)...
or do you mean to say that the only way to upgrade the OS is to buy a new machine because that, also, is incorrect...I am running an after-the-fact purchased copy of 10.4 on my G5 (hell, i'm running an Apple store purchased copy of 10.3 on my G3 B&W)...
Admittedly, my exposure to Windows is minimal as I only use it in a very limited capacity for cross-platform testing, but if this is as big a deal as some are making it out to be then i wouldn't be surprised if the newly-acquired ability of Macs to run Windows is at least partially responsible for it...after all, folks curretnly running a Wintel box are going to be much less likely to switch to Apple hardware (and potentially away from Windows to OS X) if Microsoft were to put up any kind of barriers to a seamless transition for an existing Windows box owner...
>Even Photoshop (PC= Elements vs. Mac CS2) runs faster on the little Dell laptop.
This is actually an unfair comparison as, despite similar names, Photoshop Elements and Photoshop 9 (alone or as part of CS2) are not really comparable programs in terms of the stress they put on your system resources.
apple's top of the line flagship tower can't play doom 3
bullshit...i use my G5 almost exclusively for actual work and not for gaming, so i don't have a whole lot of things to compare it to but...i run Doom 3 on a dual 1.8 GHz with 1.5 GB RAM and a Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB Spec. Ed. and it runs just fine and smooth, not eleventy-million-frames-a-second-or-whatever-compl etely-ridiculous-and-arbitrary-number-the-gaming-g eek-gods-have-decided-is-the-minimum-acceptable-th is-week smooth, but no less smooth than than the xbox version (and that is with ATI's Open GL overrides jacked up)...
and Unreal Tournament 2004 runs like a fuckin' dream...
make it able to address more than 2GB of RAM (it is my understanding that it currently can not, if this is incorrect, let me know)...hell, can it even so much as recognize that there is more than 2GB loaded into a machine and at least not subtract system overhead from 2GB to determine the max RAM available to it?...
adobe's arrogance and lack of innovation is really starting to show when it comes to this...their refusal to make this happen and trying to blame it on hardware and/or OS limitations is reprehensible...
i tried out gimp way back when and didnt care for it one bit...but if they could offer me a feature like this that would make my life and work easier i would revisit it in a second...
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i think it says much about the two mainstream parties in U.S. politics when upon stating that you value the right to individual freedom, people assume that you don't identify with either of them...
damn refresh...no comments when i started replying to this post--now i see more a couple folks suggesting the same thing as me...
Sure this is a very non-geek answer and perhaps inappropriate for slashdot but...Have you considered renting it out as a winter seasonal? Don't know where in N.E. you are at, but in the area I am from--and all my family still lives--it is quite common to see people offering up their houses as winter rentals (at a fairly significant discount) to avoid the very sort of winterizing and worry you are asking about. Basically everybody involved wins: the owner gets the house taken care of and lived in during the winter and the renter gets the place at a rate inconceivable of during the summer and spring. just a thought...
According to art. lebedev, they chose not to go with e-paper due to its being too slow...
wha--?...do you mean to imply that, short of buying a new system, nothing in a Mac can be upgraded?...because that would be news to the RAM, HD, and DVD burner in my G5; all of which have been upgraded, and all with off-the-shelf "PC" (read: not Mac specific) parts...my video card is also non-stock, but that was mac specific (only because i didn't feel like flashing a windows-based one)...
or do you mean to say that the only way to upgrade the OS is to buy a new machine because that, also, is incorrect...I am running an after-the-fact purchased copy of 10.4 on my G5 (hell, i'm running an Apple store purchased copy of 10.3 on my G3 B&W)...
Admittedly, my exposure to Windows is minimal as I only use it in a very limited capacity for cross-platform testing, but if this is as big a deal as some are making it out to be then i wouldn't be surprised if the newly-acquired ability of Macs to run Windows is at least partially responsible for it...after all, folks curretnly running a Wintel box are going to be much less likely to switch to Apple hardware (and potentially away from Windows to OS X) if Microsoft were to put up any kind of barriers to a seamless transition for an existing Windows box owner...
>Even Photoshop (PC= Elements vs. Mac CS2) runs faster on the little Dell laptop.
This is actually an unfair comparison as, despite similar names, Photoshop Elements and Photoshop 9 (alone or as part of CS2) are not really comparable programs in terms of the stress they put on your system resources.
its all about RAM and video card...
make it able to address more than 2GB of RAM (it is my understanding that it currently can not, if this is incorrect, let me know)...hell, can it even so much as recognize that there is more than 2GB loaded into a machine and at least not subtract system overhead from 2GB to determine the max RAM available to it?... adobe's arrogance and lack of innovation is really starting to show when it comes to this...their refusal to make this happen and trying to blame it on hardware and/or OS limitations is reprehensible... i tried out gimp way back when and didnt care for it one bit...but if they could offer me a feature like this that would make my life and work easier i would revisit it in a second...